The myocardial β-adrenergic system in spontaneously hypertensive heart failure (SHHF) rats
The myocardial β-adrenergic system in spontaneously hypertensive heart failure (SHHF) rats
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DOI:
10.1161/01.hyp.33.1.402
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发表时间:
1999-01-01
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影响因子:
8.3
通讯作者:
Koch, WJ
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作者:
Anderson, KM;Eckhart, AD;Koch, WJ
Responsiveness to beta-adrenergic stimulation is reduced in the failing human myocardium. This results principally from reduced beta-adrenergic receptor (beta AR) density, elevated beta-adrenergic receptor kinase 1 (beta ARK1) levels, and functional uncoupling of remaining receptors, The temporal nature of changes in the human myocardial beta-adrenergic system relative to onset of symptomatic heart failure (HF) has been difficult to discern. A relatively new model of HF, the spontaneously hypertensive heart failure (SHHF) rat spontaneously and reproducibly develops left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and progresses to HF, thus enabling longitudinal studies to examine the cellular and molecular bases for hypertension-induced cardiac hypertrophy and subsequent HF. The purpose of this study was to examine age-dependent changes in the beta AR system in this model. Lean male SHHF rats at 3, 7, 14, and 20 months were compared with age-matched Sprague-Dawley (SD) control rats ([C]; 4 animals/group). At all ages the SHHF rats had elevated blood pressures and left ventricular end-diastolic pressure relative to the SD control rats (P